Arti Prasad, M.D., FACP
Chief of Medicine, Hennepin Medical Center
Professor/Vice Chair of Medicine, University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN
Dr. Arti Prasad has special interests in integrative health and culturally inspired patient care, interprofessional education, community engagement, and physician well-being.
Her career path was influenced by the world’s worst industrial disaster at the time involving Union Carbide in Bhopal in 1984, during her final year of medical school. She moved to the United States in 1988 and began her residency training in internal medicine at SUNY Health Science Center in Syracuse before moving to the University of New Mexico to complete her training. She also completed a fellowship in integrative medicine at the University of Arizona Medical Center and a leadership training called Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine at Drexel University.
While at the University of New Mexico as a faculty member, she developed the Center for Life, a center for patient care, learning, and community education. The Center for Life has received national recognition for its patient-centered clinical care and outcomes, innovative teaching programs, and wellness initiatives.